oh man I don't think I can avoid FW for very long, after Ulysses everything else I read seems too easy, I read Herbert's Quantum Reality this week, & as much as I loved it, speaking comparatively, it hardly demanded anything of me!

though maybe science & sanity w/ the group will put me back in overdrive

Metachor - I am working on a draft of some stuff on the initiation levels - a map that Bobby and I worked on last year in a thread called the Tao of Physics if I remember right. At the time you showed us a map you had made, integrating systems, which I found yesterday on your blog. I really think we should dig out and rework some of the stuff from the Old Forum...

And this site had some TrueType Doodles of the Sigla for Mac or Windows (but not much explanation).http://www.kirbymountain.com/rosenlake/fw/index.html

And here I found another hint:http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/joyce_paper_netwake1.html

The 'sigla' in the Wake are the marks Joyce used in his notebooks as abbreviations for the most important character types or thematic nodes upon which the book is constructed. All the major sigla can be seen in footnote four on page 299. Discussing them all would take up too much space; suffice it to say that the three prongs of the letter 'E' correspond to the three prongs of HCE, and can thereby serve to represent him in various states of uprightness, downrightness, or unconsciousness. The 'Æ' of ALP is her pubic delta, from which the whole world is born. And McHugh notes that the minor sigla 'P', meant to stand for the 'Bishop/High Priest' archetype, was meant to be interpreted as an upright figure carrying a holy book in both hands.